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> I can tell you that all of the Americans I've met over here (who are not vacationing) are incredibly driven and entrepreneurial. They do not at all reflect th
by ed25519FUUU 6y ago
> I can tell you that all of the Americans I've met over here (who are not vacationing) are incredibly driven and entrepreneurial. They do not at all reflect the average American back in the US (e.g. I don't know a single Trump supporter over here;
This is a strange observation to me because Trump did very well with the small business owner demographics.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/284396/small-business-owners-highly-engaged-2020-election.aspx https://news.gallup.com/poll/284396/small-business-owners-hi...
- _huayra_ 6y agoI would guess that the interests of SMB owners for US residents and expats differ. SMB owners in the US probably think more short-term and think that policies from Trump will help them (which they may, but will ultimately continue the steady decline of the US workforce, e.g. lack of a social safety net, upward mobility, lack of education, a broken patchwork of poorly-maintained car-centric infrastructure). SMB owners who are US citizens abroad, however, are driven by primarily one thing, regardless of party affiliation: who will be most likely to support a rewrite of the punitive tax laws that the US places on its expatriate citizens (which no country other than Eritrea does).
- astrange 6y agoIf they were driven they'd own big businesses.